[Elecraft] Funny K4 Story

[Wayne Burdick]

The K4 shows all four TX bar graphs simultaneously:  power, SWR, ALC, and compression. In addition you can select numeric display of power, SWR, supply voltage and current drain for the status area, which defaults to date/time.

Wayne
N6KR

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> On May 16, 2021, at 12:18 PM, Ray <wa6vab at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My K3 has a SWR display next to the RF Power meter in the Display.
> So it Sounds like the K4 Does Not have that type of Display ?
> 
> WA6VAB  K3
> 
> 
> From: Roger Stein
> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2021 7:11 AM
> To: Tom Doligalski
> Cc: Elecraft List
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Funny K4 Story
> 
> Great story and wisdom moment Tom!
> 
> 73, Roger VA1RST 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On May 16, 2021, at 11:04 AM, Tom Doligalski via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Last week Monday I received K4 SN0110. The Brown Truck came at about 2 PM.
>> 
>> That morning I had checked into an 80M net using my trusty K3. For 8)M is use an inverted V. All was well.
>> 
>> Monday afternoon was a frenzy of setting up and using the new K4. Pretty easy setup.
>> 
>> All week long I used the K4. All was good, but I was disappointed at signal strengths on 80M. I kept thinking that the K4 just couldn’t receive well on 80M!
>> 
>> Yesterday I was out in the back doing yard work. That’s when I noticed that the support ropes on BOTH ends of the 80M inverted V had failed, and the the antenna was lying on the ground!
>> 
>> We had had a storm come through here Monday mid-day, and my supposition is that the support ropes had failed. I restored the support ropes, and low and below the K4 works well on 80M again!
>> 
>> I normally would have noticed the change in SWR, and realized that I had an antenna problem. But, of course, I had tuned the K4 for the first time on 80M when I received it!
>> 
>> A learning moment (operator error?). Gonna try to check the antennas out a bit more frequently!
>> 
>> 73, Tom W4KX
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